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From: DJW on 17 Jul 2010 10:18
On Jul 16, 8:38 pm, Tom Stiller <tom_stil...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> In article <jollyroger-5F7117.16482516072...(a)news.individual.net>,
>  Jolly Roger <jollyro...(a)pobox.com> wrote:
>
> > In article
> > <a56ed204-8487-4487-8e5a-b40c40ab3...(a)k39g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>,
> >  DJW <d...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > In OS 10 (10.4.11) is there a way to make it so it a person has to
> > > have a password to open that specific folder?
>
> > No, but you can make it so only certain people can access the contents
> > of a folder by setting the ownership and permissions of the folder
> > appropriately.
>
> ACLs would be a stronger technique than unix permissions.
>
>
>
> > Alternately, as others have said, you can make a password-protected  
> > encrypted disk image to hold files securely.
>
> Much better solution.
>
> --
> Tom Stiller
>
> PGP fingerprint =  5108 DDB2 9761 EDE5 E7E3  7BDA 71ED 6496 99C0 C7CF

What are ACLs?
From: Tom Stiller on 17 Jul 2010 10:39
In article
<ba4bef61-efd5-47fb-9008-27c4fdc38747(a)r27g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>,
DJW <ddwr(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

> On Jul 16, 8:38�pm, Tom Stiller <tom_stil...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> > In article <jollyroger-5F7117.16482516072...(a)news.individual.net>,
> > �Jolly Roger <jollyro...(a)pobox.com> wrote:
> >
> > > In article
> > > <a56ed204-8487-4487-8e5a-b40c40ab3...(a)k39g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>,
> > > �DJW <d...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > In OS 10 (10.4.11) is there a way to make it so it a person has to
> > > > have a password to open that specific folder?
> >
> > > No, but you can make it so only certain people can access the contents
> > > of a folder by setting the ownership and permissions of the folder
> > > appropriately.
> >
> > ACLs would be a stronger technique than unix permissions.
> >
> >
> >
> > > Alternately, as others have said, you can make a password-protected �
> > > encrypted disk image to hold files securely.
> >
> > Much better solution.
> >
> > --
> > Tom Stiller
> >
> > PGP fingerprint = �5108 DDB2 9761 EDE5 E7E3 �7BDA 71ED 6496 99C0 C7CF
>
> What are ACLs?

Access Control Lists. See the ACL MANIPULATION OPTIONS section of the
man page for chmod for details on what and how.

--
Tom Stiller

PGP fingerprint = 5108 DDB2 9761 EDE5 E7E3 7BDA 71ED 6496 99C0 C7CF
From: nospam on 17 Jul 2010 13:22
In article
<eef20cd9-2500-42e7-9e14-36356af601f0(a)i28g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>,
DJW <ddwr(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

> If I did use DU to make an image I would not be able to add files to
> it at well would I?

of course you would. they're read/write, unless you make it read-only.
From: Bill on 18 Jul 2010 10:31
In article
<a56ed204-8487-4487-8e5a-b40c40ab3ac3(a)k39g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>,
DJW <ddwr(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

> In OS 10 (10.4.11) is there a way to make it so it a person has to
> have a password to open that specific folder?

You can use Disk Utility to make an encrypted disk image and put the
folder or file in that disk image.

See the Help for Disk Image on how to do that.

You might want to make it a Sparse Image, then it will take up only as
much space as it needs.
From: Robert Haar on 19 Jul 2010 21:52
On 7/16/10 11:41 AM, "Michael Vilain" <vilain(a)NOspamcop.net> wrote:

> In article
> <a56ed204-8487-4487-8e5a-b40c40ab3ac3(a)k39g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>,
> DJW <ddwr(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> In OS 10 (10.4.11) is there a way to make it so it a person has to
>> have a password to open that specific folder?
>
> No. That can only be done for web sites or remote servers.
>
> The best you can do is create a password-encrypted disk image file of
> the directory such that you're asked for a password to access it.

Technically correct, but an encrypted disk image will act much like the OP
requested. The encrypted image requires a password to open and then appears
in the finder (as a disk) and can be navigated like a folder.

> Even
> you will be required to enter the password even though you own the file.

You can put the password into your keychain.

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